Pen Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old pen quotes, pen sayings, and pen proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.

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The pen is the lever that moves the world.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

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Your pen is your sword. Wield it wisely.

C.A. Simonson

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Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for.

jason Ellis

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Pens carry further than rifled cannon.

Bayard Taylor

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The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.

Billy Collins

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The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Miguel de Cervantes

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There is more done with pens than with swords.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

Aristide Briand

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A pen transmits the voice of the soul.

Fennel Hudson

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The power of the pen is landmark of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

Miguel de Cervantes

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The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

Terry Pratchett

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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

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The pen is mightier than the sword, if you know where to poke it.

Jeremy C. Shipp

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Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

Glen Hansard

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The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

George Henry Lewes

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Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will.

Malcolm Forbes

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A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

John Adams

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A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

Elmore Leonard

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